Osteoma cutis is primary cutaneous ossification, which has no preceding trauma or skin disease and no evidence of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy in the patient or his family. The lesion appears as hard, round to irregular, sharply defined
tumor of
varying size within the skin or subcutis, and color ranges from flesh-colored to purple or brown.
We report herein a case of ostoma cutis in a 32-year-old female, who had a 1×1cm sized, asymptomatic, round. flesh colored, hard nodule on the right side of her forehead for 5 years. Histopathologic examination showed mature bone with many
osteocytes.
osteoblasts. cement lines and Haversian canals in the dermis. (Kor J Dermatol 1992;30(2) :249-252)
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